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López warns that PSOE and PP want to bring the AVE to Cartagena without burying and in 2025 (11/01/2019)

This morning, the spokesman of the Municipal Group MC Cartagena, José López, accompanied by the president of the Cartagena training, Jesus Giménez, has appeared before the media to make an assessment of the "fantastic week of Castejón", seasoned with two meetings in those that should be addressed the progress made by the Socialist Executive in two key issues for Cartagena and Comarca;

the arrival of the AVE in the city and the installation of the City of Justice.

Both issues have revealed the lack of a project on the part of the socialist mayor's office, guided by improvisation and constant change of direction.

A fact that comes to add to the lack of information provided, either by ignorance or by concealment attempt, which prevents a reasoned statement, for example, in the location of the future and seems far away, City of Justice.

In this context has begun his intervention the Cartagena leader, José López, explaining that this appearance is made because "the drift that events are taking returns to play against Cartagena in strategic matters."

Regarding the AVE, has denounced that "Castejón has thrown into the arms of the PP and sold us the Barreiro solution," noting that "he wants us to accept the current underground line only from Torreciega (800 meters), in exchange for the promise of burying until the Houses of Clares and divert the goods in the future, yes, without deadlines or financing.

López has contextualized that the expiration, on December 11 of this year, of the Environmental Impact Statement (DIA) for rail access to Cartagena, should not be an excuse to do things hastily, since "the technicians they assure that the AVE will not reach Cartagena before 2024-2025 ", so" there is no need to take advantage of that DAY ".

This forecast of dates is due to the fact that "to date, there is no project for the railway line to come from Murcia to Cartagena", for this reason, it has asked the Cartagena people to "not buy 'donkeys' in May; next term will not arrive the AVE to Cartagena ".

The mayor of Cartagena has shown how "Castejón and his friends in the PP have skipped the agreement of the Summer Plenum of 2018 which defended the arrival of high speed, as wanted neighbors, without cutting towns, without stopping the expansion of the city, arriving underground, and with two lines, one for passengers and another for merchandise, reaching Los Camachos and from there to El Gorguel and Escombreras ".

"The PSOE and the PP want to take the station to Mandarache again, without hiding, they will know why," causing "in the most favorable case, the neighborhood of 600 in Cartagena is what will stop being the Barrio del Carmen de Murcia, where the roads are going to be buried, we do not deserve a 19th century solution in the 21st century, "he assured.

Option 1 of ADIF, the best for the future of Cartagena

Of all the alternatives proposed by the Ministry of Development for the arrival of high speed to Cartagena, José López said that MC Cartagena supports "option 1, the best for the future of Cartagena."

Option 1 contemplates that the railway line reaches Los Camachos, entering the road to where the ZAL is located, and following the merchandise branch to Escombreras and El Gorguel and another branch, the passenger line, to Cartagena.

This project takes the Torreciega railway, the Casas de Clares and the future development of the city.

The passenger line would reach the Cabezo de la Viuda, in front of the Security Park.

From this point, it would be buried until the entrance to the station of Cartagena, only 1.4 km, paid by the state administration and not by the City Council.

Jesús Giménez: "The AVE, more expensive for Cartagena, will pay 25 million out of every 100. Murcia, 8"

For his part, the president of MC, Jesus Giménez, has delved into what was expressed by Lopez, adding that the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena can not become "a problem for the neighborhoods and a burden for the Hondón."

Then the solution has slipped before a possible confrontation with the decontamination of El Hondón, betting on the "provisional stations." As is said in Mandarache, one can be made in Cabezo Beaza, but it is not true that it should be run. to act responsibly. "

Giménez has made a similarity with the arrival of high speed to the city of Murcia.

Thus, "the Railway Arterial Network (RAF) in Murcia is having an impact of 8% on the City Council." Or what is the same, of each 100 million euros, the City of Murcia contributes 8. The Cartagena Convention High Speed â€‹â€‹establishes 25% for the City of Cartagena, 25 out of 100. That is the reality ".

A question that must be put in relation to the price that supposes a buried kilometer (30/50 million euros). "If in Cartagena we do two kilometers more we will pay between 15 and 25 million more if we believe in the promise of the central Government to bring it by the Cartagena and we would have something that will not work for five years, and also, swallowing with the agreement that makes us pay 25% to Cartagena, while Murcians pay 8%. of Cartagena the problem that is solved to the neighbors of the neighborhood of Carmen, something we applaud, "he reasoned.

Later, he clarified that "the project of 2006 has not been executed in any of its points." The project of how the train from Murcia to Cartagena will arrive has not been done, everything that has been said since 2006 is a lie and which is said now too ".

Jesús Giménez, City of Justice: "Know before deciding"

Given the opinions expressed on the positioning of MC, Giménez has clarified that his training accepts the possibility that "it is viable, feasible, profitable and fast, because the City of Justice can be done tomorrow".

"What we want is to be explained to us what is the cost and the deadlines to locate it in the Naval Hospital and in the Army Subsistence Factory. And it is that we have the feeling that they want to 'mess it up', joining operations and entangling the situation "

He has asked for a definition in this sense so that "the Cartagena people know what it costs them, they are strategic projects and we want to know which option is chosen, beyond the announcements for the month of May In all this institutional turmoil we want to make clear the MC posture. Know before deciding. "